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5 cool urban design ideas that bring a touch of green to the drab city gray

Today is Arbor Day. Founded by J. Sterling Morton in 1872, National Arbor Day is celebrated to encourage tree planting and care. Here are five ideas for celebrating Arbor Day with your children: Plant a Tree and Give it a Name

This is the classic Arbor Day activity. Whether you plant a native tree or an ornamental in your yard, children love to plant trees and monitor the tree’s growth in comparison to their own. In our family, we name our trees, such as Maggie the Magnolia.

Light passing through the One Day Poem Pavilion’s perforations creates a poem that changes according to the solar calendar. During the summer solstice, the poem is about “new life”. During the winter solstice, the poem’s theme is the “reflection and the passing of time.” Each hour, a new line of the poem is revealed by the passage of the sun.

Released on Earth Day in an effort to promote greener living, these Limited Edition sneakers feature pearlescent green and blue accents along with images of our one and only planet Earth. Partial proceeds from the sale of each shoe benefits the Alliance for Climate Protection.

Impressionists have been called “open air” painters, because they took advantage of the mobility offered by the invention of tubes of paint and went outside for inspiration. Following this art movement’s love of the outdoors, I was inspired to paint with my children outside in honor of Earth Day.

Shopdropping is sort of like reverse consumerism. Artist Ryan Watkins-Hughes switches the mundane packages on tin cans, then sneaks them onto the shelves in stores, such as NYC’s Whole Foods. He thinks of it as reverse shoplifting.

Shine On Brightly is an online gallery which offers hand-crafted cremation urns in ceramic, wood, metal, and glass. It also features customized textile art, personalized poetry, and handmade books to celebrate and honor the life of a loved one. All products are produced by some of the finest artisans in the Southeast. The company is based in Asheville, NC. It is committed to providing unique, environmentally-friendly, non-outsourced options for end-of-life choices.

Spring is just a few weeks away - the perfect time to refresh your home with a few new, eco-friendly items. Started by indie Canadian design blogger Jan, Poppytalk Handmade is like an online farmer’s market for handmade goodies (why didn’t we think of that!?). As luck would have it, this month’s theme for the showcase is all about green ...

Mashing statistics and art is Seattle-based Chris Jordan, who has produced these amazing and profoundly depressing visualisations of the resources we use and the waste we produce.

Barefoot Books has formed an alliance with Eco-Libris, as part of their commitment to "Go Green"

Tree Shaping, Living Art, Arborsculpture, Pooktre -- the process of shaping the trunks of trees and other woody plants produces remarkable works of art, often as practical as they are beautiful, and a result of many years of patience. Photos and commentary from practitioners, historical and contemporary.

Designed by Brazilian artist Rafael Morgan, this award-winning light blends style and function with a thought-provoking visual commentary on the use of our natural resources, particularly water. The wall-mounted “taps” function as dimmer switches for the drippy, custom-molded LEDs, allowing more or less light to be shed on whatever subject whilst urging us to ponder the sources and limitations of our environmental reserves.

This is a beautiful piece of art created by Nick Foley. Only if I could come up with enough money to purchase this…The light is custom made from hand-forged steel, this tree comes bearing fruit with rechargeable LEDs that allows you to take the lights with you down dark hallways. Once “picked” from the tree, each pear stays illuminated for about an hour. To bring it back to life, just place it back on the tree, where it will recharge for your night-viewing pleasure.

HomeLand art provides excellent oil paintings which are created by experienced artists. HomeLand art offers you the paintings of flowers, fruits, gardens, sceneries, modern art and much more. The customers who bought these oil paintings are fully satisfied. The quality of the paintings is high and HomeLand art never takes copy of the paintings. The water is painted with green and light blue and the sun’s rays are painted with multi colors. The animal collection has three paintings.

Brooklyn artist working with recycled materials